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Rescue workers search for bodies at the site of a plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria. A passenger plane carrying more than 150 people crashed in Nigeria's largest city on Sunday, government officials said. Firefighters pulled at least one body from a building that was damaged by the crash and searched for survivors as several charred corpses could be seen in the rubble.

A Palestinian child holds a bag with cheese during a walk through the rubble of a cheese factory in Al Zaiton. Israel bombed two targets in the northern Gaza Strip after Palestinian militants fired a rocket into southern Israel. A military spokeswoman in Tel Aviv said the targets were a workshop used for manufacturing weapons and a tunnel dug by militants. Palestinian witnesses countered that it was a cheese and dairy factory on the southeastern outskirts of Gaza City that was hit.

Royal supporters gather on the mall outside Buckingham Palace in preparation for the Queen's Jubilee concert in London. A chain of more than 4,200 beacons began to flare across the globe Monday to mark Queen Elizabeth II's diamond jubilee, with the last to be lit by the monarch at a star-studded concert at the palace.

An exiled Tibetan man carries a portrait of spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on the 15th day of the Tibetan Buddhist holy month of Sa Ka Dawa in Dharmsala. Tibetans believe that virtuous actions are multiplied on this full-moon day that commemorates Buddha's birth, enlightenment and death.

Egret chicks and a parent bird sit in their nest on the bank of the Brahmaputra River in Guwahati City, India. During this season, of the year hundreds of egrets built their nests in the trees available in the highly populated Panbazar area, which is a major business centre of the city. With the expansion of the city and fast-growing high-rise buildings, many trees of the area have been cut down, and as a result, more and more egrets are losing their breeding habitats.

Zoology professor Ratul Rajkhowa of Cotton College in India holds a dead spider of the alleged species that killed two people in the northeastern state of Assam. Panicked villagers there complained of an invasion of giant biting spiders that resemble tarantulas but are unknown to local specialists. Authorities have swung into action by fogging and spraying insecticides in the area, and a team of scientists have been dispatched to investigate.

People take part in a a candlelight vigil in Hong Kong held to mark the crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, are believed to have died when the government sent in tanks and soldiers to clear Tiananmen Square, bringing a violent end to six weeks of pro-democracy protests.

Pictures in the News | June 4, 2012

Monday’s “Pictures in the News” begins in Nigeria, where rescue workers continue to search for bodies at the site of a plane crash in Lagos. A passenger plane carrying more than 150 people crashed in Nigeria’s largest city on Sunday. The Dana Airlines plane was traveling from Lagos, the country’s commercial hub, to the capital of Abuja.

Spanish riot police fire tear gas to disperse a miner’s demonstration in Vega del Rey. Spanish coal miners are staging a nationwide strike action organized by unions opposed to subsidy reductions. Staying in Europe, royal supporters gather on the mall outside Buckingham Palace in preparation for the Queen’s Jubilee concert, and the French Open tennis tournament continues at Roland Garros stadium in Paris.

Elsewhere, people take part in a candlelight vigil in Hong Kong held to mark the crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989; a partial lunar eclipse is seen through a TV tower in Sapporo, Japan; and an exiled Tibetan man carries a portrait of spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on the 15th day of the Tibetan Buddhist holy month of Sa Ka Dawa in Dharmsala.

Add stops in Pakistan, Poland and the Gaza Strip to round out the report.